app-niche-finder

When to Use This Skill

Call this when:

1. Finding a problem to solve: Merchant identifies pain in own store, needs to verify market viability
2. Validating category fit: Founder has app idea, wants to assess competition density
3. Generating ideas from scratch: Founder has skills but no clear problem direction
4. Competitive analysis: App exists, needs to understand gap analysis before building

Do NOT use this if:

• You're building in oversaturated categories (email, basic pop-ups, product reviews)
• The idea requires deep ML infrastructure one founder can't handle
• Shopify is likely to ship natively (Shopify's roadmap moves fast)

The 3-Step Gap-Finding Framework